{"id":6955,"date":"2021-03-28T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2021-03-28T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T21:45:55","slug":"violence-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/03\/28\/violence-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend Sibel Kekilli &#8212; Shae, for all you fans of HBO&#8217;s GAME OF THRONES &#8212; emailed me recently to alert me to some distressing news out of Turkey.\u00a0\u00a0 (Sibel is German, born and raised in Germany, but of Turkish descent).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Turkey, under the Erdogan regime, has officially withdrawn from the Istanbul convention that combats violence against women.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details:<br class=\"\" \/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/20\/europe\/turkey-convention-violence-women-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/20\/europe\/turkey-convention-violence-women-intl\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\n<br class=\"\" \/>Sibel herself has first hand knowledge of what it means to experience violence, and she has long been an advocate fighting violence against women all around the world.\u00a0\u00a0 She is not only an amazing actress (she gave Shae a depth the character never had in my books), but a very brave woman, and a true hero.\u00a0\u00a0 I admire her immensely for all she has done, and continues to do.<\/p>\n<p>And I would like to echo her message to the women and girls of Turkey:\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>Selam Ve Sevgiler<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay strong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend Sibel Kekilli &#8212; Shae, for all you fans of HBO&#8217;s GAME OF THRONES &#8212; emailed me recently to alert me to some distressing news out of Turkey.\u00a0\u00a0 (Sibel is German, born and raised in Germany, but of Turkish descent).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Turkey, under the Erdogan regime, has officially withdrawn from the Istanbul convention that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,34],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6957,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}